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half that aeross below the middle, ovate to oblong, the base 
broad, rounded or obtuse and inequal, apex abruptly acute 
and mostly curved to one side; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, though 
irregular; petiolules ascending, arising from the articulate 
thickened nodes, 2 to 4 cm. long, glabrous, quite thick, also 
articulate. Inflorescence in the upper leaf axils, as long as 
the leaves but more erect and spreading over them at the 
top, the smooth, green stalk provided with 1 to 3 pairs of 
small opposite leaves; corymbs 1.5 to 3 dm. across, 2 to 3 
umbellately divided, upon glabrous 1 dm. long peduncles which 
are usually 3-branched; pedicels 10 to 1.5 mm. long, spread- 
ing, also glabrous; fruits light olive green when fresh, with 
a darker green pointed cap, elliptic or obscurely flattened, 
1 em. long, 8 mm. wide, smooth, 1-celled, 1-seeded, seed subor- 
bieular or somewhat flattened toward the apex the place of 
attachment. 
Type specimen 8958, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. A few trees of this spe- 
cies were found in half swampy woods at Balete a small 
barrio three miles west of Sablan. 
LOGANIACEAE. 
Strychnos luzonensis n. sp.— Scandent shrub, with rigid 
and ultimately, slender terete branchlets; stems 2.5 mm. thick; 
wood solid and very tough, with smooth light gray bark, or 
brown on the twigs. Leaves opposite, scattered along the 
branchlets, chartaceous to glabrous, ovately lanceolate to 
lanceolate, tips slightly recurved, lucid green but darker on 
the upper surface, apex acuminate, base acute to short obtuse 
or rounded, 10 cm. long, 4 em. wide or frequently smaller, 
with entire margins; petiole dark brown when dry, glabrous, 
1 em. long; nerves more prominent beneath, parallel, the 
narrower leaves with only a single pair, the broader ones 
with an additional rather faint pair of nerves, reticulations 
quite evident beneath. Corymbose panicle terminal, ternately 
branched from the base, glabrous, about 1 dm. long and as 
wide, yellowish brown puberulent, but soon becoming glabrous; 
the branchlets, peduncles and pedicels subtended by small 
setaceously pointed bracts; flowers creamy white, subsessile 
or upon slender 3 mm. long pedicels, 1 to 3 clustered; calyx 
